Backed by Howard "Howdy" Calhoun's fancy three-hit flinging that set 19 Mississippi college Choctaws down on strikes. Florida State University opened their initial diamond campaign here last night with a 6-0 victory before 963 fans in Centennial Field.

The two teams meet again tonight at 8:15 in the final tilt of the two-game series.

With Calhoun, a rangy right-hander from St. Petersburg, completely dominating the Choctaws with his fast ball the Seminoles coasted in behind a 12-hit attack that accounted for a pair of tallies in the opening frame and a four-run cluster in the sixth.

Calhoun, off to a somewhat shaky start and bothered by wobbly control, improved as he went along. And through the closing innings he held the Mississippians almost helpless.

The Seminoles hopped on Choctaw Starter Jim Nicholson for a brace of runs in the first inning to stake Calhoun to his early lead.

Dozier Allen, FSU lead-off man, beat out a hit to first base and came all the way around when Billy Parker smashed a hard double.

Parker was erased at third trying to stretch the blow to a triple, but Sam Cox drew a pass to keep the Indians on the warpath.

Jack Wilson, Seminole backstop who handled Calhoun nicely throughout the tilt, got the first of his two hits when he banged a single out over second base, and Cox moved down to the midway station.

After Bill Tanner flied to right field, Murphy singled to left scoring Cox with the second tally.

Nicholson bore down through the next four frames to hold the Seminoles away from the plate, but when his infield wobbled in back of him in the sixth the Indians pushed four runs across before he could put out the fire.

The Mississippi college Choctaws gained an even break in their two-game series with Florida State University with a 13-3 decision over the Seminoles in a loosely played tilt in Centennial Field last night.

The Seminoles had copped the opener 6-0 Monday night behind "Howdy" Calhoun's brilliant three-hit mound effort.

Hampered by the wildness of starting pitcher Wade Howell, and shackled by their own fielding lapses the Seminoles were unable to check the Mississippians' attack.

With Howell off to a shaky start in the opening frame the Choctaws got off to a four-run bulge concocted on a mixture of walks, errors and base hits.

After surviving the early outburst Howell settled down to hold the Chocs away from the plate until the sixth while his mates chipped away at Choctaw chunker Beard with single tallies in the second and fourth frames.

Howell's control and support folded again in the sixth, however, and Mississippi chased a half dozen tallies across in their second big frame before the fire could be put out.

Mississippi continued to roll against Knight and picked up a pair of scores in the eighth and a single score in the ninth to complete the rout.

Howell passed 10 men and fanned three during his stay on the mound, while Knight issued one free ticket and whiffed five batsmen.

A total of 13 bobbles were committed by the two teams with the Seminoles contributing eight of the fumbles.

Beard, who went all the way on the Choctaw mound, spaced out the Seminoles' five hits nicely in racking up his triumph.

Dago Murphy, Sneads, contributed a triple to the muffled Seminole attack.

The Seminoles will meet Mercer's Bears here Thursday night in their next scheduled game.

Grey was the whole show in Friday night's opening Tar win.

After coming in to relieve Covello with five runs across, the bases full and only one out, the big righthander pitched 8 1/3 innings of hitless shutout ball.

In addition to his mound effort Grey contributed a triple and three singles to pace the Tars crushing 20-5 win.

The Rollins Tars swept their two-game weekend series with Florida State University with an 8-5 win over the Seminoles in Centennial field last night.

The Tars had taken the opener 20-5 Friday night.

Big John Grey, hero of the opening win, came back to the mound last night to throttle a ninth-inning rally and preserve the Tars margin.

The Tars, trailing 4-2 after the first five innings of play, staged a pair of three-run outbursts in the sixth and eighth to rack up their triumph.

Saurbrun, who went the first five innings before being removed for a pinch hitter in the Tars sixth, received credit for the win.

Jim Covello, who was pounded from the hill in the first inning of Friday's tilt, came in to work until the ninth before giving way to Grey.

Lefty Sam Cox went all the way on the FSU mound.

CLINTON, MS - The Florida State University Seminoles split their two game series with the Mississippi Choctaws here winning Friday's opener 6-5 and bowing in the finale Saturday afternoon.

The two teams had previously divided an early series played in the Florida capital.

Wayne Howell pitched the Seminoles to their second win of the season in the Friday tilt when he spaced out nine Choctaw blows to gain a tight one-run decision over a pair of Mississippi hurlers.

The Seminoles picked up their scores in two-run clusters in the first, fifth and eighth to overcome early Choctaw leads.

In the nightcap the Choctaws broke a 6-6 deadlock in the last half of the ninth to push the winning run across the plate.

Beard and Ross, who divided mound duties for the Choctaws, were touched for ten blows, but staggered in over the combined efforts of Howdy Calhoun, Knight and Wynn who worked for FSU.

CLINTON, MS - The Florida State University Seminoles split their two game series with the Mississippi Choctaws here winning Friday's opener 6-5 and bowing in the finale Saturday afternoon.

The two teams had previously divided an early series played in the Florida capital.

Wayne Howell pitched the Seminoles to their second win of the season in the Friday tilt when he spaced out nine Choctaw blows to gain a tight one-run decision over a pair of Mississippi hurlers.

The Seminoles picked up their scores in two-run clusters in the first, fifth and eighth to overcome early Choctaw leads.

In the nightcap the Choctaws broke a 6-6 deadlock in the last half of the ninth to push the winning run across the plate.

Beard and Ross, who divided mound duties for the Choctaws, were touched for ten blows, but staggered in over the combined efforts of Howdy Calhoun, Knight and Wynn who worked for FSU.

The Florida State University diamond squad went down to its sixth defeat against four victories yeaterday in Troy, Ala. when they dropped a tight 3-2 tilt to the Red Wave.

After Wayne Howell, FSU starting pitcher, had singled a tally across in the second to give his club a 1-0 lead, the Wave bounced back in the third to push over all their scores.

Blackie Connell, Wave leftfielder, accounted for two of the tallies with a 326 foot drive over the rightfield fence with one man aboard.

The Seminoles rallied in the eighth to push their second run across on a pass, single and Ronald Nettles double, but the rally fell short.

Howell, who worked the first 4 2/3 innings before giving way to Howdy Calhoun, was charged with the defeat.

The Seminoles, playing their best game of the season afield, turned in a fast double play in the fourth to haul Howell out of a tight spot.

STATESBORO, GA - The Florida State University baseball nine broke their two-game losing streak Friday afternoon against the Georgia Teachers College winning a 5-2 margin in Statesboro. Seminole hurler, Howard "Howdy" Calhoun who toiled for Coach Charlie Armstrong's squad, limited the Georgians to five hits and he fanned fifteen men.

Calhoun was in serious trouble only in the seventh inning when GTC started a rally with a two-run uprising. The Indians had two miscues in the field throughout the game, tightening down whenever the Teachers threatened.

The Seminoles got to Georgia pitcher, Hall, in the first stanza when they tallied twice, then in the fifth Dago Murphy, husky outfielder from Sneads, poled the big blow of the game, a home run with one man aboard, to give Calhoun a 4-0 lead. The round-tripper was the first one of the year for Florida State.

Armstrong's charges pushed across an additional tally in the eighth inning to run the score up to 5-2.

The two game series with the Teachers was the first activity for FSU since their loss to Troy State 3-2 on April 28. The victory gives Calhoun a season's record of three wins and two losses.

STATESBORO, GA - Coach Charlie Armstrong's Florida State University diamond squad swept its series with the Georgia Teachers college here Saturday night with a decisive 12-8 triumph.

The Seminoles had taken the opener Friday afternoon 5-2.

Burly Dago Murphy, Sneads, who sparked the Seminole attack Friday with a long home run, duplicated his feat again Saturday night with a four-base wallop over the centerfield wall that scored two runners ahead of him and gave the Indians an 8-1 margin which they protected against the Teachers' closing rally.

John Witt, who went all the way on the Seminole mound, spaced out nine blows in racking up his triumph.

The FSU hurler weakened in the closing frames when the Teachers threatened to come from behind, but choked off an eighth inning uprising and blanked them in the ninth.

TALLAHASSEE, FL - Florida State University's Seminole baseball team came from behind Friday night to score a hotly-disputed 7-6 win over Middle Georgia college in a ten-inning game at Centennial Field. Lamar Brown scored the winning run on a wild pitch.

John Witt, who relieved Godfrey Knight in the ninth got credit for his third victory of the season and the second win for him against the Georgia combine.

The dispute arose in the top of the tenth when Billy Parker, third sacker for the Seminoles pulled the old hidden ball trick on a Georgia player to halt a threatened rally. The Georgia coach and players maintained that the ball was not in play when Parker tagged the runner. After a heated argument between the coaches and team members, the umpires ruled the ball was in play.

Knight pitched good ball, allowing seven hits while striking out nine, but he was given shoddy fielding support by his teammates who committed six miscues.

Dozier Allen, Lamar Brown and Billy Parker collected two hits each to lead a 12-hit attack on Georgia Pitchers Haynes and Patrillo.

Allen rapped two doubles, and was deprived of a homer when he failed to touch third. Brown, Parker and Dago Murphy blasted triples.

The Teachers threatened to run away with the game as they practically ran the bases ragged with 11 steals, but the Indians counter attacked with six.

TALLAHASSEE, FL - The Florida State University Seminoles racked up their eighth victory of the season, and their fourth successive triumph last night when they hammered out a 8-3 win over the Savannah branch of the University of Georgia at Centennial field.

Backing Howard (Howdy) Calhoun's six-hit hurling with an 11-hit outburst of their own, the Seminoles picked up single tallies in the first, fourth, sixth and seventh and climaxed their scoring with a four-run outburst in the eighth to sew up the decision. Calhoun, big righthanded fast-baller from St. Petersburg, blew 14 of the Savannah Bulldogs down on strikes in achieving his triumph.

After surviving a rough first inning that saw the Georgians score twice on a single basehit, Calhoun breezed along until the eighth when the UGS counted their third tally.

Bill Tanner, with a triple and a single, and Allen, Parker, Wilson, and Padgett with two blows apiece, paced the Seminoles attack.

WINTER PARK, FL - The Florida State University Seminoles came to life with a five-run rally in the eighth against Rollins Friday afternoon, but failed to overcome an early Tar margin and went down to their seventh defeat of the season against eight victories.

The triumph was the Tar's 17th in 18 starts against Florida college competition this season.

The thumping Tars built up an early 6-0 lead against Seminole ace Howdy Calhoun as they chipped away for pairs of runs in the first and second and single tallies in the third and sixth.

After the Indians had narrowed the gap to 6-5 the Tars bounced back with two runs in the eighth to ice the tilt.

WINTER PARK, FL - The Rollins college baseball team made a clean sweep of their four-game series with Florida State University by taking an 8-2 decision today.

The game ended the season for the Rollins state intercollegiate championship nine. They chalked up 21 victories in 25 games.

John Gray, big freshman righthander from West Palm Beach, hung up his ninth win against a single loss by turning in a two-hit performance against the FSU Seminoles and striking out 10 batters. He also collected a triple and a single in three trips to bat in two Rollins runs.

The Seminoles took a 2-1 lead in the second when they got two unearned runs off a base on balls, two errors and an infield hit.

The Tars got eight hits off John Witt, who went the distance for the Seminoles, with four of the hits, including Gray's triple, accounting for four runs in the fourth.

TALLAHASSEE, FL - Coach Charlie Armstrong's Florida State University diamond squad is slated to meet Troy's Red Wave in Centennial field tonight at 8:15 in the final tilt of the Seminoles' initial baseball campaign.

Armstrong indicated early today that he would send righthanded fastball ace Howdy Calhoun to the mound tonight as the Seminoles aim toward their tenth victory against eight setbacks.

The Indians racked up their ninth win of the season yesterday afternoon when they pushed over a seventh inning tally to break a 5-5 deadlock and take the opening game of the series from the Wave 6-5.

Led by centerfielder Lamar Brown, who had a perfect day with two doubles and a single in three official trips to the plate, the Seminoles chipped away at Clark to overcome an early Troy lead and take the decision.

Righthander John Witt, who went all the way on the Seminole hill to achieve his fourth win against a lone defeat, survived a shaky start that saw the Wave push over four of their scores in the first three frames.

Witt, touched for 11 blows, struck out seven and passed five in racking up his win.

Clark, who went the route for Troy, allowed nine blows, struck out five and passed an equal number.

       NAME             POSITION AB  R  H RBI BB SO PO  A
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Dozier Allen            2B        1  0  0   0        1  1
  Glenn Gresham         PH-2B     3  0  0   1        4  2
Billy Parker            3B        4  1  1   0        3  2
Jack Wilson             LF        4  1  1   0        0  0
Dago Murphy             RF        3  3  1   0        0  0
Lamar Brown             CF        3  0  3   4        1  0
Ronald Nettles          C         4  0  0   0        7  2
Al Padgett              SS        3  1  2   1        2  4
Truby Shaw              1B        0  0  0   0        2  0
  Bill Tanner           1B        3  0  0   0        7  0
John Witt               P         4  0  1   0        0  2
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FSU                              32  6  9   6  0  0 27 13
Opp                              37  5 11   4       24 12

E - Opp-2, FSU-Dozier Allen 3 (13), Billy Parker (14), Lamar Brown (4), Truby Shaw (4)
3B - FSU-Lamar Brown 2 (3)
SB - Opp-7, FSU-Billy Parker (8), Al Padgett (3), John Witt (1)

       NAME                      IP  H  R ER BB SO
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John Witt            W (4-1)    9.0 11  5     2  7
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FSU                             9.0 11  5  0  2  7
Opp                  L          8.0  9  6     5  5





 
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